Today’s Thought “Sticks and Stones…” G. Ward 2 Corinthians 3:5-6 Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God, but our adequacy is from God, 6 who also made us adequate as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. False teachers in this first century pervaded letters to authenticate their religious authority and altogether imposed these un-sanctioned certificates while questioning others and soon the lot would fall on the Apostle Paul to defend himself. Paul would ask those of his previous encounters to remember his words only sought to highlight Christ sufficiency, never his own. Character’s truest definition remains seen and unseen behavior. Therefore, to say you know HIM (Christ), talks and walks as HE did (*1 Pe.2:21-24).